Track for door-hangers.



PATBNTED 930Mo', 19x07.

TRACK FR DOOR RANGERS.

APPLwATwN FILED s511110, 1906.

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4 PlLIILlP A. MYERS, OF ASHLAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO F. E. MYERS ANDBROTHER, OF I ASHLAND, OHIO, A COPARTNERSHIP.

TRACK FOR DOOR-HANGERS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec.y 10, 1907. v.'

Application lled September 10.19.06. Serial No. 333.921. i

- of which the following is 'a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to tracks for door hangers, and its object istoprovide a track for use With sliding door hangers, such as arecommonly used onY outside barn doors and the like, which can be made insections of suitable length for handling and shipping and which'can beassembled to form a continuous track which Will be strong and durableand not easily distorted.

A further object is to provide a construction of this characterWhich-Will enable me to utilize ordinary tubing, such as gas pipe, forthe track sectionsf ,4

W'ith these objects invieW my invention consists injthe constructionhereinafter to be described, and then more particularly pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a plan view of my improvedtrack; Fig. 2 isa sectional view taken'through a supporting bracket and'thc'tubing; and Fig. 3 is a de- -tail viejyv of onejof the brackets;

in the accompanying drawings, 'the 'refer-v ence numeral l indicates thetrack proper which is composed of a series of sections 2 which may be ofany suitable length. These sections, as here shown, are composedoferdinary iron gas pipe, but any suitable tubip'g` may be utilized forthat purpose, and it may.

be of any desired diameter. These ipes are provided at each end with alcngitu inalslot 3 extending a shortV distance into the tubing. In orderto rigidly connect these sections to form a single continuous track, Iconstruct the supporting brackets das shown inthe drawings, in whicheach 'of vthe supportlng brackets comprises a base, adapted to besecured to the Wallof the building, and provided with an outwardly'extending web or plate 6,'upon' thefbuter 'end ofwhich is car ried aconnecting head or member 7 which is' preferablycylindrical in shapevandA adapted to enter the ends of the tubular sections.

l .These supporting members may be provided with any suitable meansforadj usting them to the variousslzesoi tubmg and for securing themvvithin said tubing, but -I refer that shown in the drawings in Which te cyllndrical head is bored longitudinally and slotted, preferablythroughout its length, as

shown at 8, so that it can be compressed or expanded to vary thediameter of the cylinf' drlcal connecting head. The e ansion of themember 7 may be accomplis ed in any, suitable manner, .but preferably bythe use of an ordinary expanding tool or a tapered bar which may bedriven into the, end of the member 7, thereby .expanding -the same and.causing 1t to rmly engage With-the inner walls of the tubular track andfirmly unite the parts. A

The manner of assembling the sections to l form a track will be obviousfrom the forego; lng description. One of the supporting brackets 4 isrstsecured in proper osition upon the wall and the end of one of t e tubesections placedupon the end of the cylin drical connecting member 7,'the recess 3 in the end of such tube'sec-tion engaging the edgeof'theiveb 6 and permitting the tubing to pass along the cylindrical-.connecting member until its end isnear the center there-f' of. A'secondbracket is then brought into enoagement with vthe o posits end. of thetube section and secured) y with-the rst supporting bracket after whichthe opposite endof 'the secon connecting in proper relation.

'- the second section of tubing. isplaced upon.

vmemberand the process continued until the;

track isof the desired'length. The recess 2 in' the endor` thepipe engaingthe Webs (i oit the supportn f brackets a. op; the tube sec` tions topass a ong t e cylindrical connecting membern distano sul'ficientiftobring the ends of 'the adjacent sections. together, thereb 'forming acontinuoustrack in which thea joining sections are flushand theytrackpractically ointhess' In setting up the track, the -cylin icalconnecting members` 'may-.be expanded or Vcontracted to' fit the varioussizes of/tubing'to giyo a driving fit with's'uch tubing; or the same maybetirst placed in.the pipe section and thenefmand,` ed to lock the samein position, therebyijon dering the trackrigid. l Wish. 't to bunderstood that i do not 4desire 'to be'liipitedto theexact details ofconstruction shown-and described, for olay .vious modifications willoccurxto a person.

slulledmthe art.

j Havng'thus fully foo ics

Ddescribed my inver; tion,

-wh'at'I claim as new and' desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A track of the character described com` risinga series of hollowsections, a support or said track having a connecting member ofnon-resilient material carried thereby and adapted to enter the ends ofsaid hollowsec- .tions and having a slot extending from one end thereof7Whereb the diameter of said end maybe -varie substantially as devne'ctinmember of non-resilient material 1 carrie thereby, adapted toenterth'eends of said ,sections and having a longitudinal ,slot extending throughthe entire length thereof, whereby the diameter of said connectingmember may be varied,'substan 2 tially as described.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature I in presence of twowitnesses.

PHILIP A. MYERS.

Witnesses: T. B. KELLOGG, R. M. TUBns.

